Professor Peng Khaw knighted in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Professor Peng Tee Khaw, Professor of Glaucoma and Ocular Healing and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2013. Professor Khaw's long track record of innovative research includes developing new therapies, particularly for scarring. He has developed surgical techniques (such as the Moorfields Safer Surgery System) which have markedly improved the safety and outcome of glaucoma surgery, and developed new anti-scarring regimens based on laboratory research, leading to large international clinical trials and use. These treatments and techniques have been successfully adapted for use in many parts of the developing world at minimal cost. He and his team have been awarded over 20 national and international prizes. Professor Khaw is Director of the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London. He is also Director of Research & Development at Moorfields Eye Hospital, which is the largest Eye Hospital in Europe/USA, and Director of the Eyes and Vision Theme of UCL Partners, one of the UK Academic Health Science Centres of excellence.